Gorshenin Institute to host VI National Expert Forum on 12 October

VI National Expert Forum, founded and organised by Gorshenin Institute, will be held in the conference hall of the Parus Business Centre at 2, Mechnikov St, Kyiv on 12 October.

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The National Expert Forum is one of the leading Ukrainian discussion platforms, where Ukrainian and foreign government officials, politicians, businessmen and experts get together to discuss key issues on the agenda, present their visions of resolving urgent problems and provide a forecast of the socio-political and economic situation in Ukraine.

Guest registration for the VI National Expert Forum is via this link or by phone 044 230 4962.

Due to the large number of participants and a limited number of seats, the organising committee of VI Expert Forum will give priority to representatives of central government, commercial companies and organisations.

· Components of the energy security of Ukraine. Own energy sources, energy efficiency and diversification of energy supplies;

· Reform of the natural gas and electricity markets;

· Ukraine's international cooperation to reform the energy sector;

· Implementation of the standards and principles of the 2nd and 3rd energy packages.

DISCUSSION PANEL PARTICIPANTS:

­ Maksym Tymchenko, director-general at DTEK;

­ Olha Byelkova, member of the Ukrainian parliament, deputy head of the Parliamentary Committee for Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Security;

­ Karel Hirman, expert on energy sector at the Strategic Advisory Group for Support of Ukrainian Reforms (SAGSUR);

­ Serhiy Chekh, advisor to the Minister of Energy and Fuel Industry of Ukraine;

­ Torsten Wollert, head of theSupport Group for Ukraine, European Commission.

PANEL EXPERTS: Oleh Ustenko, executive director of the Blazer Foundation; Valentyn Zemlyanskyy, energy expert of the Centre of World Economy and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Yuriy Korolchuk, executive director of the Centre for Energy Strategies; Anton Antonenko, vice-president of DiXi Group; Ivan Plachkov, president of the All-Ukrainian Energy Assembly; Yuriy Sakva, vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Energy Assembly; Vasyl Kotko, president of the Energy Association of Ukraine; Dmytro Rohozin, vice-president of the Energy Association of Ukraine; Krzysztof Rogulski, energy expert (Poland).

PANEL EXPERTS: Markiyan Lubkivskyy, ambassador to the Republic of Croatia (2006-09), coordinator of the Justice movement; Bohdan Yaremenko, chairman of the Maydan of Foreign Affairs foundation; Oleksandr Sushko, director of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation; Mykhaylo Pashkov, co-director of foreign policy and international security programmes at the Razumkov Centre; Veronika Movchan, research director of the Kyiv Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting; Olesya Yakhno, political expert; Ihor Solovey, director of the WORLD department, LB.ua; Serhiy Sydorenko, editor of the Yevropeyska Pravda website.

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